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03-25-2017 10:40 AM

George Stobbart

Re: Gambling confession

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Mr Alexander, speaking as the company released its results for the year to December 31 and announced a second special dividend, said a few customers had been winning up to €20,000 (£17,000) per month on tennis bets. Such people were now only able to win €200 a month, or had seen their accounts closed, he added.

I won like $7000 and lost close to $7500, so in the end I am trailing by $500.

These days I have considerably reduced my betting as i got bored with it, I haven't overcome the addiction completely but I withdrew my $450 yesterday [which I made from $200 investment]and left my account with just $37, lost all the remaining bets for $37 but won a bet yesterdau on Federer -Lu match which should give me $15 , just going to enjoy with the $15 of cash.

If I make $1 million from this $15 cash I will pay your $1000

10-13-2014 03:05 PM

Rumblingbelly

Re: Gambling confession

Staking limits are very important, its so easy to crash and burn placing too big bets for your bankroll. (easier said than done)

10-07-2014 02:34 PM

Gospodin

Re: Gambling confession

Im new to this forum (2013 first I ever heard of it) but not new at all to betting. Ive been betting since 2003 when I was 12 years old.
From 2003 to 2011 never ended a year in minus with an emphasis on 2010 when I had 10 000 euros profit, a number Ive never came close since and mostly before. 2012 was my worst year in betting the first I ended in red, I had really difficult times and some losses that were just heartbreaking. One of them was when Almagro lost against Kubot after leading 2:0, after serving for the match X times, winning more games, more points, more winner, better 1st serve %, more aces, less unforced errors etc and he still managed to lose...and that all just a day after Berdych almost did the same thing against Robert..2013 was a year in which i started to bet on tennis almost exclusively and it was quite succesful, besides Nadal destroying against Darcis for 1800 euros, I was betting mostly on female tennis, over games and it brought me a solid profit but unfortunately, I lost control and during the summer lost a lot of money, culminating with Jankovic-Keys over 20.5 games USOPEN13 which ended 6:4 6:3 and that game was the only one that I missed for around 3300 euros. After that I stopped betting, for the first time realized how much i dont need it...then in 2014 started betting a bit by bit, and it was a neutral year for me and now last few weeks I cant win shit. What I didnt mention is that unlike all bettors with any brain in their head, I am an idiot who continues playing parlays instead of singles and doubles, and for winning a 6 game ticket you need an awful amount of luck which I obviously dont have anymore. Also what is funny is that during the 2008-2011 period which was a major success I didnt knew so much about football and tennis, meaning that the lack of knowledge actually helped me..because nowadays I know so much more that it is often impossible for me to decided to bet on someone, its hard for me to distinguish the quality between some challenger or ITF players..

Also, the golden years of betting on Vika Azarenka are gone...I dont know if you can believe this but all in all before 2013/2014 I had 78 bets on Azarenka out of which 76 passed!!! It was almost always handicaps on her as she was the only player you could rely on in destroying the opponent from 1st to last game, unlike Federer,Nadal,Djokovic,Serena and Sharapova who would often play as much as they needed...

Anyway, all in all.. I can honestly say that i regret ever starting betting, because even when it was going great it wasnt easy...It was always hard to recover from losing a bet in the last minute, or missing just 1 game out of 10 etc etc, by that I mean that no matter what happened after the bet was in my mind and it was hard to forget..there are people who after the ticket is over go on with their day, and I would do the same, but still it would be i nthe back of my mind. Nevertheless, I gained things from betting..learned so much about languages,culture,money etc..for instance there is no person in the planet with which I coudnt start a conversation because even if they came from the smallest village in Sweden or Peru or i dont know where Id always know at least a city,sportclub or a player from there, which sometimes comes in great...also all those losses and the consequences of betting made me emotionally stronger because as you know sometimes its really CRUEL..but who knows how much of that took a toll on me without even realizing it.
Lately Ive been fantasizing about finally starting to play only singles and doubles but for that I need a big budget around 1000-2500 euros which I currently have but would never spend it on betting..so until I win at least some portion of the planned budget through betting I wont even start...and you all know how hard it is to win thousands of euros from only hundreds of euros in stakes, ofc there is always exceptions, but for the last 2.5 years I havent been that exception...

I could go on and on, but this is a part of the story, but I always believe and know from first hand that its great for your mind to relieve your soul especially with fellow bettors who understand.

08-20-2014 02:32 PM

Rumblingbelly

Re: Gambling confession

Funny how betting variance goes sometimes, ive staked 11000€ this year and im up +6€, I would say bad luck mostly as I always beat the closing line, sometimes with a big margin.

I agree. But I think there's a simple way to not be flagged as "non-recreational gambler", I don't know how things go in other countries but here, in Spain, we have on ground betting agencies and I didn't heard any story about someone getting banned there. The downside of these agencies is that they have winning limits to around 10 000 euro but for me is more than enough, as for the stake limit I think you can easily place more than 100 euro on one bet.

Also about predicting who will win, there are 2 types of bettors: one is the bettor who place the bet by instinct and other type that is doing his/her homework, checks stats and don't try to get rich by just placing one bet. With a good money management I think is possible to keep a good balance and obtain some reasonable profit from betting.

just because there are high street bookmakers doesn't mean they accept any possible sum you'd want to stake, I've an agency just in front of my house and they accept peanuts, not just from me but from everybody. it's true that there are several agencies who are willing to accept more here but this is usually up to very professional managers running them, something very rare.
on top of that prices offered are often an issue as philosophicalarf said.